The Betrayer by Lexy Timms

Author:Lexy Timms [Timms, Lexy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: billionaire boss, workplace romance, sexy, hot and steamy, sport romance, hired wife, fake girlfriend, happily ever after, sweet love story, romance love, romance love triangle, new adult romance, billionaire obsession, contemporary romance and sex, romance billionaire series, free kindle romance, melody anne billionaire bachelors series, billionaire romance, holiday, holiday romance, romance, billionaire, true love, love and life, golf, bilionaire romance, dark romance, romantic comedy, saga, women's saga, BBW, bad boy, Alpha Bad Boy, Alpha male romance, new adult, contemporary romance, cancer, fictio, big beautiful women, women's fiction
Publisher: Dark Shadow Publishing
Published: 2022-12-11T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Paul

I WATCHED MY FATHER as I waited for his response. His shoulders tensed, and a weary light crept into his eyes like he wasn’t sure what I was going to ask or whether he would like it.

It was always odd how the power dynamics had shifted since I was a child. My father might have been my boss, but I was no longer a kid looking up to him. Instead, we were two grown men having a semi-civil conversation. It seemed, possibly, hope against hope, my father might have heard what I had been telling him these past days. And maybe, just maybe, he was willing to listen to what I had to say.

His offer to make things up to me surprised me and caught me off guard. I scrambled to give him something for a moment, but then the obvious answer hit me.

“I have to go to China to meet with the investor I spoke to Friday morning. He was already shaky on us, so now I have to go and persuade him to give us the money. Without him, we can’t finalize the acquisition of INT, and then we’ll be up a creek.”

“When did this happen?” My father’s eyes narrowed. I criticized him for his work ethic, but when it came down to it, but he still cared for the company more than anything else—even himself. It was his legacy and his life’s work, and he was CEO. Even if sometimes the role was a nominal one.

“On Friday, when I met with him. Like I said.”

The information caught my father’s attention. “What did he say, exactly?”

“Nothing specific. I told you the basics,” I lied.

My father seemed to know me better than that because his eyes narrowed further. “I made sure that guy was a slam dunk.”

For a moment, I hesitated. I hadn’t been kind to my father these past few days, but that was me—I was his son. There was a difference between letting my pent-up feelings out and telling him what someone as important as a significant investor thought about him.

“Did you forget what he said?” My father gave me a look I knew well from childhood. He expected me to provide him with the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

No, I hadn’t forgotten. The words had been ringing in my head since Friday morning, around and around as I tried to figure out the best way to ensure the investors were on board. I had, in fact, been in a low level of panic about the entire thing.

But my father had been the one to bring him in, like all the others. In this, I wasn’t my father. I didn’t have the same charisma, and I didn’t have the ability to work whatever magic my father had with investors.

I was worried, though I hadn’t told anyone. I didn’t want anything out there that could jeopardize this acquisition deal from any side.

“Paul?” my father asked. He could tell from my silence that what I had told him wasn’t true, and I finally gave in.

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